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The number of Chinese parents hoping to send their children to top British schools is on the rise, but at what cost?

You arrive at the airport with only the minimum amount of time to spare in order to sweep through check-in and security before making it to your gate just as boarding begins. But there’s no concern as everything is well…

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As more and more gardens are paved over, Andrew Tuck says it’s time that people take over urban spaces to make our cities green again.

Putting a plant in soil and watching it grow is one of the pleasures of life. I live in a house with no garden but a small roof terrace that is packed with plants, from silver birches that shrug off the wind to giant hostas…

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As the Turkish president states his intention to bring the Ottoman language back into the education system, Monocle’s Joseph Dana says this points to a wider renaissance of Turkey’s pre-Republic past.

Whether they want it or not, Ottoman language will be learned and taught in Turkey, said president Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a religious conference last week in Ankara. Erdogan and his AK party have never concealed their…

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I am not a particularly pious person. And religious education always struck me as an odd subject to include on the national curriculum.

I am not a particularly pious person. And religious education always struck me as an odd subject to include on the national curriculum. Schooling atheist teenagers must be an unrewarding job. Perhaps because it was such…

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Can a plain t-shirt be the answer to the problems of the Israeli education system?

Can a plain t-shirt be the answer to the problems of the Israeli education system? Education Minister Gideon Saar thinks so. He has just reintroduced mandatory school uniform and announced that the nation’s 1.5 million…

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As Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its findings into the country’s residential school system and the abuse of native children educated within it, Tomos Lewis assesses the impact of the process.

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has begun to give its account of one of the darkest periods in the country’s modern history. On Tuesday the Commission, which has been in session for the past six years, gave a…

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As students settle into their new lives at universities and colleges around the world, Monocle’s Aled John thinks back to his own education and asks whether in the current economic climate, would he do it all again?

It’s that time of year again when parents have packed off their young to university, Breville toastie maker, Morrissey posters and lava lamps included. University means fresh aspirations and a new social life – along with…